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THINKER

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An important intellectual

Example:

the great minds of the 17th century

Synonyms:

creative thinker; mind; thinker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("thinker" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Derivation:

think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("thinker" is a kind of...):

intellect; intellectual (a person who uses the mind creatively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thinker"):

brain-worker; brainworker (someone whose profession involves using his head to solve problems)

classifier (a person who creates classifications)

divergent thinker (a thinker who moves away from the problem as stated and often has novel ideas and solutions)

excogitator (a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly)

muller; muser; ponderer; ruminator (a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation)

arranger; organiser; organizer (a person who brings order and organization to an enterprise)

philosophiser; philosophizer (someone who considers situations from a philosophical point of view)

convergent thinker; problem solver; solver (a thinker who focuses on the problem as stated and tries to synthesize information and knowledge to achieve a solution)

ratiocinator; reasoner (someone who reasons logically)

rocket scientist (a clever thinker)

speculator (someone who makes conjectures without knowing the facts)

Derivation:

think (use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments)

Credits

 Context examples: 

He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"You know, the foot-ball players have to train before the big game. And that is what Latin does for the thinker. It trains."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And others of them have said that he was an industrious plodder rather than an original thinker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He measured the narrowness of their minds by the minds of the thinkers in the books he read.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And yet a man like Principal Fairbanks of Oxford—a man who sits in an even higher place than you, Judge Blount—has said that Spencer will be dismissed by posterity as a poet and dreamer rather than a thinker.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)